I would like to know how to calculate the amount of private memory (i.e. memory used only by that process) so I can estimate the total amount of RAM I have to put in a heavy loaded server. In Sun Solaris I use a tool called pmap that gives me a resume of the private and shared memory and the size image of each process. This pmap utility uses the /proc filesystem to obtain the information. In Linux I've used ps axl and I think that the RSS column is the right one, but I'm not sure. Also I've look at the file /proc/<PID_OF_PROCESS>/status that has, for example, these lines: VmSize: 1144 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 52 kB VmData: 28 kB VmStk: 8 kB VmExe: 56 kB VmLib: 1024 kB But again I'm not sure which one of these numbers is the one to look at. Could please any VM guru help with this? Please CC me because I'm not subscribed to the list Best regards Miquel Colom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/